H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

• Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way.

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  Topics in Fear

• The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Topics in Fear

• I couldn’t live a week without a private library – indeed, I’d part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I’d let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

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  Tags in Books, Reading

• There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.

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• To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

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• But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

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• Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.

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• If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.

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• Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.

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• But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

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• Heaven knows where I’ll end up – but it’s a safe bet that I’ll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.

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• Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

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• Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.

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• We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.

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• The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

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• I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

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• I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.

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• What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world’s beauty, is everything!

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• The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

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• Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.

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Birth:	20th August, 1890
Death:	15th March, 1937
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist

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H. P. Lovecraft was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Virtually unknown and only published in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, he is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors in his genre.

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